Lynne Stewart
Lynne Stewart is a long-time civil rights lawyer. She represented Omar Abdel Rahman, the sheik who is serving a life sentence for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks. Lynne Stewart is being sentenced for "blatantly and... [more]
Lynne Stewart is a long-time civil rights lawyer. She represented Omar Abdel Rahman, the sheik who is serving a life sentence for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks.
Lynne Stewart is being sentenced for "blatantly and repeatedly" violating prison regulations by helping her client communicate with his followers.
Background on the Lynne Stewart Case
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Background:
Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists after she passed along a 2000 press release in which her former client, Omar Abdel-Rahman expressed an opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt.
Trial Details:
Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl to give Stewart get the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, calling the lawyer's conduct an "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group..."
Stewart, who has pleaded for leniency, claimed that Abdel-Rahman had a constitutionally protected right to express his opinion, despite an order barring any contact between the blind, Egyptian sheik, and his followers.
Sentence:
Nearly 2½ years in prison for helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.
Background:
Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists after she passed along a 2000 press release in which her former client, Omar Abdel-Rahman expressed an opinion about a cease fire by Islamic militants in Egypt.
Trial Details:
Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl to give Stewart get the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, calling the lawyer's conduct an "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group..."
Stewart, who has pleaded for leniency, claimed that Abdel-Rahman had a constitutionally protected right to express his opinion, despite an order barring any contact between the blind, Egyptian sheik, and his followers.
Sentence:
Nearly 2½ years in prison for helping an imprisoned terrorist sheik communicate with his followers on the outside.
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